Tag: tattoos

James Wright: “All Flawless Hexagons May Melt and Break”

Photographer Unknown, (Tattoos in a Green Room)

“Give winter nothing; hold; and let the flake
Poise or dissolve along your upheld arms.
All flawless hexagons may melt and break;
While you must feel the summer’s rage of fire,
Beyond this frigid season’s empty storms.
Banished to bloom, and bear the birds’ desire.”

― James Wright, The Green Room

We Are Freaks

Photographer Unknown, (We Are Freaks Tattoo)

“There’s a quality of legend about freaks.
Like a person in a fairy tale who stops you and demands that you answer a riddle. Most people go through life dreading they’ll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They’ve already passed their test in life. They’re aristocrats.”

― Diane Arbus

Roger Kahn: “Losing After Great Striving is the Story of Man”

Photographer Unknown, (Man Wearing Baseball Cap)

“You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.”

― Roger Kahn,  The Boys of Summer